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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia main building

Arbat District, Russia

The 613th tallest building in the world

172 m · 564 ft

The headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers (commonly known as the Seven Sisters), designed and overseen by Vladimir Gelfreykh and Adolf Minkus.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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